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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Operator patch 9.0.15

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Abstract

On 31 July 2025, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Operator patch 9.0.15. As with all patches, it is cumulative. In addition to the new fixes listed here, all fixes from earlier patches for this version are included.

Content

This patch updates Manage to version 9.0.153.
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*Not updated from Operator Patch 9.0.14 in this release.

Manage and Mobile APAR and Known Issue Fixes
When an APAR or Known Issue has Manual Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Manual Changes section for directions.
When an APAR or Known Issue has Behavior Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Behavioral Changes section for information.
When an APAR or Known Issue has Database Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Database Change Details section for information.
APAR Application Name Description
DT392932 Report Using Reportpack or Reportwithbreaks report delivery options, the usage log incorrectly identifies these as immediate reports
DT394137 Integration Adding a new Inventory Usage record with the Maximo Integration Framework does not update the Item Reservation quantity correctly.
DT397021 Preventive maintenance Preventive maintenance for Meter-based frequency displays incorrect Meter reading values.
DT397228 System UI In a Start Center Portlet result set, adding or remove selected fields from the portlet, then clicking Remove Selected removes all fields.
DT398413 Mobile When a user creates a new Inspection Form in the Manage app, then returns to the Mobile app, updates all data through the Settings menu, and attempts to create a new inspection using the Template option, the new Inspection Form does not appear in the list of available templates.
DT400963 Mobile In Mobile Calibration, The NO ADJ MADE option can be selected when the As Left values were entered manually.
DT406700 Spatial The System Property mxe.map.geometry.enableautolocate is not defaulted to false when Mapping is not enabled.
DT417477 Report In reports generated as PDFs, the barcode provided with Manage (Libre Barcode 128) produces barcodes that cannot be scanned.
DT417491 Report When printing nineteen or more Work Orders using Direct Print with Attachments, the output is sometimes out of order.
DT418425 Invoices In the Invoice application, creating a Reversal Invoice applies an incorrect exchange rate, resulting in a variance of the Total Base Cost.
DT418536 Purchase requisitions Saving a filtered Purchase Requisition (PR) line causes error "BMXAA4197E - Specified object not found. Report this error to the owner of the deployment." to display.
DT419682 Inventory usage When a Purchase Order is closed and the Inventory Usage status is set to 'SHIPPED,' a pop-up warns of a deleted reservation. Regardless of the user's response, the status change window reappears and creates a new shipment each time, resulting in duplicate shipments.
DT421773 HSE Some out-of-the-box Domains have values with sizes greater than the domain length.
DT422725 Utilities For records accessed from a Start Center portlet, in CU Estimating (T&D), the List view button does not work.
DT423271 Spatial In Spatial 9.0, the Layers tool does not show Subtype Group Layers.
DT423293 Mobile In Work Order Tracking, inserting a Problem using the FailureReport array causes duplicate entries to be created in the FailureReport table. The FailureReport array is missing from the API response.
DT423398 Scheduler In Graphical Scheduler, sorting on the Duration column of the View tab causes the application to appear to freeze.
DT423920 System (Object) The Message Tracking application does not log roll-back error messages.
DT424186 Mobile Answers using multiple Inspection Form revisions are saved for the same Inspection.
DT424693 Assets In the Assets application, the informational message "BMXAA0019I - The Asset field is either read-only or part of the primary key, and thus cannot be edited." may display.
DT425104 Mobile In Issues and Transfers, the Inventory Usage Records action does not allow users to search, list or filter Usage Records by their From Storeroom attribute.
DT425196 Invoices In the Invoices application > View Related Records dialog > Materials Receipts tab, an INVOICE line is wrongly displayed.
DT425549 Mobile When users create an Inspection Form question, they cannot enter a value in the Description field if its length exactly matches the field's maximum allowed length.
DT425788 Report In Db2 environments, a user in Reporting cannot use the not equal to operator (<>) in the filter to run a report.
DT426691 Inventory usage In the Inventory Usage application, users are unable to reuse a Rotating Asset in a new Inventory Usage transaction after rejecting its shipment.
DT426717 System UI Applying a custom CSS rule to change the Long Description font to sans-serif using the CSS Customization feature does not work as expected.
DT426724 Oil & Gas  In the Moc (Oil ) application. populating the Asset field associated to a Location causes the informational message "BMXAA0019I - The Safety Critical Element field is either read only or part of the primary key. You cannot edit this field." to appear.
DT426788 Accessibility (AVT) The tooltip that appears when hovering over the Filter icon provides information that does not match the actual behavior of the filter functionality.
DT433344 Automation Scripts Deleting a script associated with an Object Structure Query causes a null pointer exception in the OSLC cache.
DT433654 System UI When multiple files are attached to a Work Order and marked as public, only one file is saved for public access.
DT433808 Report The Print Report icon on the BIRT Viewer does not work as expected.
DT433900 Mobile In the Inventory Counting application, when items are stored in multiple bins, the system sometimes shows an Overdue count that is higher than the total number of items scheduled for counting.
DT434342 Report Generating reports in Manage / BIRT with Hungarian accented characters render correctly in the browser and Excel exports, but disappear in the generated PDF reports.
DT434495 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment, assigning Labor generates the error "BMXAA4214E - An unknown error has occurred. Please contact your system administrator for assistance. Gather the logs from the <HOME> directory and determine where and why the error occurred.".
DT434559 Mobile In the Conditions dialog, clicking a field with a long description value opens a tooltip to show the description, instead of triggering the actions to show the Conditions.
DT434586 System UI JAWS announces the Item description multiple times.
DT434796 Work Order Tracking Users not in the MAXADMIN Security Group cannot cancel Child Work Orders with one or more Assets.
DT435023 Work Order Tracking In environments with Utilities installed and the CREWDURATION MAXVAR is set to Static, users cannot add Planned Labor to a Work Order.
DT435115 Meter Groups In the Assets application, Start and End Measure values are inconsistent while Meter Group for Linear Assets is updated.
DT435398
Manual Change
Assets In Assets, cannot move Asset against an open Work Order to a different Location.
DT435450 System UI Maximo Mobile E-signature Reason field is not required
DT435568 Mobile When a user duplicates a form with a Meter, the Meter is not duplicated.
DT436105 System UI A clickable image below the filter fields reveals data when clicked with a mouse, but it is not accessible via keyboard or screen readers, limiting usability for assistive technology users.
DT436139 Assets In the Assets application, opening the Linear tab triggers invalid bindings for the 'Change Item Number' and 'Change Status' events. This issue only occurs when the Linear tab is expanded.
DT436215 Assets Adding a Relationship for an Asset with a different target location causes error "BMXAA4129E - The record for Relation=BACKSUP, Source Asset=0003, Target Asset=, Linear Specification Id=0 already exists. Ensure that the key value for the given record is unique.".
DT436461 Work Order Tracking When a Condition Monitoring Work Order that shares the same PM and Asset is cancelled, the PM's Estimated Next Due Date field does not revert to its original value.
DT436537 Work Order Tracking (Cal) In Work Order Tracking, duplicate entries are generated when report downtime is performed under Multi Assets, Locations & CI section, keeping a mandatory field empty.
DT436848 Assets Users assigned to a Security Group with access only to Site A are able to perform Rollup maintenance actions on assets in Site B, which they should not have access to.
DT437011 Purchase orders In the Receiving application, a PO for Services is marked as COMPLETE even though the Service was only partially received.
DT437115
Manual Change
Behavioral Change
Warranty Contracts User can delete an authorized Site is allowed when a Warranty Contract is in Approved status.
DT437363 Inventory When a user cancels a Work Order, Tool or Equipment reservations linked to that Work Order remain active.
DT437659 Scheduler In a Manage 9 environment with Health, Safety and Environment Manager installed, in Assignment Manager , creating a new record with WO Group and labor causes error "BMXAA4187E - The relationship WOQUALREQALL does not exist for business object WMASSIGNMENT. Verify that the relationship specified in parameter WOQUALREQALL exists in the MAXRELATIONSHIP table.".
DT437765 Location Enabling the 'Is a Repair Facility' attribute in the Locations application causes performance issues.
DT437780 Mobile In offline mode, a user in Mobile Technician cannot select a value from the lookup using the right arrow button on the Edit Failure Codes screen.
DT437836 Scheduler In Graphical Resource View, designating WORK time period for shift on HOLIDAY causes the error BMXAT1106E - "Cannot add extra time that intersects with the shift working hours." to appear.
DT437867 System UI Optimizer uses header SNE/FNL dates even when Task Assignments have their own dates and different locations.
DT443650 Communication template When a Workflow task is reassigned in Maximo with email notification enabled, the Communication Template unexpectedly updates to reflect the new assignee and task details.
DT437915 Scheduler Adding 'Start No Earlier Than' to a Work Order causes BMXAT0135E and BMXAT0190E errors when committing in Graphical Scheduler.
DT437943 Create Requisition In Desktop Requisitions, using a Requisition template fails to copy the GL Account to Material Lines.
DT437944 Report On the Report Request page, starting the Invoice Cost Variance Report for LIFO/FIFO Items causes the Start Date and End Date parameters to mirror each other.
DT438015 Scheduler In the Graphical Scheduling application, saving and refreshing a record takes longer than expected.
DT438031 System UI The System Property mxe.webclient.searchMenubar does not work as expected.
DT438046 Oil & Gas Cannot run the Risk Assessment Details report.
DT438064 Report If a Report description contains a forward slash character (/) , scheduling the report to send in .xlsx format fails.
DT438066 Desktop Requisitions In Create Requisitions, selecting a standard service does not populate the GL Account on Material Requisitions Lines.
DT438192 Operator – Manage Enabling Manage debugMode by adding set debugMode=on directly to the Server Bundle does not work.
DT438241 Scheduler The Appointment window displays in UTC while the Work Order shows in ET in Graphical Work Week, causing misalignment in the Gantt view.
DT438297 Mobile A Mobile Worklist query runs slowly due to repeated execution of the same query hundreds of times.
DT438308 System UI Creating a new Work Order, adding entries and an Inspection form, saving the record, and then navigating to the Inspection from the Inspection Results causes the user-entered data to be lost.
DT438471 Routes Returning a value for Routes in Work Order Tracking triggers a BMXAA4214E error.
DT438496 System UI Adding a decimal field to a smart-input tag in Mobile Technician causes rounding issues, displaying values like 1.8 as 1.8000000000006.
DT438673 Mobile When selecting the "black check" or "black error" icons, another icon is selected.
DT438780 System UI In an environment where the System Property mxe.doclink.securedAttachment is set to true, clicking a URL in an Asset list view routes through the secure attachment servlet and returns error 500.
DT438831 System UI In the Inspection Form application, a newly-created condition does not appear immediately. 
DT438882 Work Order Tracking Service cost is not calculated using a Dynamic Job Plan.
DT438887 Service requests SR status can be changed to RESOLVED despite having open Work Orders.
DT438906 Mobile Setting page-size in Datasource Override for Mobile Technician has no effect; the application still downloads 200 records.
DT438909 Mobile In Mobile, an Asset Data Sheet can be completed without completing required Dynamic Checks.
DT438913 Mobile Performing ad hoc counts on a mobile device does not update Inventory Counts correctly.
DT438976 Mobile In both the role-based Application Asset Manager and in Mobile, opening the Edit Specification sliding drawer in the Asset Manager app displays blank rows instead of specification labels and values.
DT438994 Location Based Services When the device is offline, a base map info retrieval exception may occur.
DT439088 Scheduler/Crew In Graphical Scheduling, enabling the Physical % Complete field and committing changes causes the Work Order's Physical Percent Complete to be set to 0, even though no value was entered.
DT439103 Scheduler/Crew In Graphical Scheduling, he Calculate Cost function performs more slowly than anticipated.
DT439121 System UI Adding content above the tabs in Application Designer for WOTRACK causes the tabs to dock incorrectly, revealing background data above them when scrolling in Work Order Tracking.
DT439176 Mobile In Mobile Technician, entering Labor Hours with non-zero minutes (for example, 1:15) incorrectly triggers a Validation error.
DT439218 Mobile In Maximo Mobile, using a YORN field in the Mobile QBE filter does not work.
DT439250 Mobile Entering a long description into the SRMOBILE work log fails to save it to Manage or the device.
DT439290 Spatial In the Asset application, when the end measure of the feature is equal to the end measure defined in the Linear Referencing Details, features and attributes do not appear at the end of the Linear chart.
DT439291 Mobile In Mobile Technician, a Task can completed when predecessor Tasks have not been completed.
DT439327 Work Order Tracking In Work Order Tracking, filtering records in the Available Labor dialog causes error "BMXAA6713E - The MBO fetch operation failed in the mboset with the SQL error code 206. The record could not be retrieved from the database.".
DT439349 Spatial The GIS Cron Tasks pulls coordinates when the url parameter returnGeometry is set to false .
DT439355 Mobile When the mobile device is in offline mode, in Inspection Forms, the Upload a file option for a question is not immediately available.
DT439407 Mobile Syncing transactions from the Mobile app to Manage does not complete.
DT439420 Mobile In the Mobile Service Requests application, when switching the device from portrait to landscape mode, the map does not resize properly.
DT439426 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment, a long-running data load fails with a Cloudflare 524 timeout error.
DT439440 Work Order Tracking When a background status change is executed for one Work Order and the same user performs a synchronous status change on another, the sendersysid for the first Work Order is not updated.
DT439520 System UI In Operational Dashboard, the KPI Value card displays only the first 99 KPIs in the selection list.
DT439597 System UI In the Job Plans applications, on Labor/Planned Labor, the Task column label incorrectly displays 3 dots before Task; for example, ...Task.
DT439674 Mobile In Inspection forms, deleting a response field in a question with multiple options resets the others to the default value.
DT439731 Invoices When Tax Limits and Tolerances are configured for user's group, then processing a negative Purchase Order through to Invoice approval, the invoice cannot be approved due to a mismatch between the header and line tax amounts, triggering errors BMXAA2013E and BMXAA2007E.
DT439736 Mobile In Inspections, Users cannot select more then two options in Single/Multiple Choice response fields.
DT439813 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment, the Publish By and Last Publish Date fields are blank after the Publish scenario runs without errors.
DT439841 Mobile After an Inspection is completed, the Due Date is still displayed.
DT439854 Graphical Assignment In Graphical Assignment, assigning Labor to another Craft causes error "BMXAA2531E - Skill is not valid.".
DT440288 System (Object) Users logged into MAS Home Suite Navigator connecting to Manage are intermittently redirected back to the Navigator page.
DT440440 Assets In Assets, a Rotating Asset can be moved from an Inventory Location.
DT440605 Mobile After completing a task offline in Maximo Mobile and syncing, the 'Status Date' in Activities and Tasks reflects the sync time instead of the actual task completion time.
DT440615 Count Book In Count Books, performing a wildcard search in the Bin field returns no results.
DT440688 Mobile Revoking Close Work Order Status Change access for the TECHNICIAN security group in the MXAPIWODETAIL Object Structure does not prevent the CLOSE status from appearing in Maximo Mobile.
DT440726 Mobile In Work Order Tracking, going to Inspection Forms opens the revision screen, not the the Inspection Form list.
DT442101 Assignment Manager In Assignment Manager, closing a Work Order causes warning "BMXAA8229W - Record ASSIGNMENT: ASSIGNMENTID=<number> has been updated by another user. Your changes have not been saved. Refresh the record and try again." to appear.
DT442109 System UI During the application import process, the "interactive" flag is incorrectly set to true.
DT442176 Mobile On the Report Work page, the Organization field displays incorrect information.
DT442300 Report The Location Hierarchy report returns incorrect results.
DT442314 Preventive maintenance In the Inventory application, a duplicate reservation is created for Work Order whose PM is associated to a Job Plan with a Nested Job Plan.
DT442350 System UI In Application Designer, the Control palette dialog cannot be moved.
DT442401 Mobile Removing a filter on subcategories does not remove the filter results from the subcategories list.
DT442575 Mobile In Assigned Work, clicking Inspections displays the wrong questions.
DT442587 Mobile Opening and navigating large Inspection Forms with many questions and conditions takes longer than expected.
DT442597 Mobile In Inspection Forms, opening a form with Conditions the first time does not display the conditional fields.
DT442604 Mobile In Maximo Mobile, users with languages other than English cannot accept or reject assignments.
DT442650 Mobile In Mobile Technician, when handling a large number of attributes, the Specifications page does not fully load.
DT442651 Mobile In the Technician (RBA) application, entering data in the Start/End Time field does not display the first digit.
DT442684 Mobile In Inspection Forms, deleting Single/Multiple choice options does not update numeric order.
DT442797 Mobile In a Work Order (WO) record, clicking the Map icon does not center the screen or navigate to the location of the WO on the map in both the Mobile and RBA applications.
DT442887 System UI In the Operational Dashboard, the historical values for KPI trends are not connected through a line using Mozilla Firefox.
DT443067 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment publishing a Scenario causes "BMXAA4214E - An unknown error has occurred. Please contact your system administrator for assistance. Gather the logs from the <HOME> directory and determine where and why the error occurred." to display. Clicking OK clears the record information.
DT443068 Mobile In the Technician app, new Assets are not immediately displayed.
DT443251 Mobile In the Technician app, users cannot submit new Meter Readings.
DT443321 System UI Resizing the browser zoom to 100% causes right-justified buttons to overlap Application names.
DT443391 Scheduler Users cannot record Actual Labor on Incident-related activity using the Activities and Tasks app.
DT443579 Mobile In the Technician application, there are time zone discrepancies between core, RBA and Mobile applications populating report hours.
DT443681 Service requests In the Service Request (SP) application, selecting a Service Address does not populate the Service Address Description.
DT443943 Service requests Enabling a workflow that create a Work Order when creating a Service Request cases an error on mobile devices -"BMXAA0184E - Either the classification xxx cannot be used for WORKORDER or there is a customer mismatch between the record and the classification.".
DT443947 System (Object) In Online upgrade, CLASSNAME field values do not change from the default value when extension classes exist.
DT443956 Mobile On mobile devices, Failure Code Reporting displays all Problem-Cause-Remedy (PCR) records for all Assets.
DT444080 System UI JAWS incorrectly describes a sentence of text as “grid with 1 column and 1 row, Column 1, Row 1 This portlet has not been set up. To set up, select the edit icon in the portlet header.”.
DT444116 Mobile In mobile device settings, checking both Supporting Data and Delta, then clicking Refresh for Updates fails, retaining unmodified records.
DT444147 Mobile Adding a Tool with a past date calibration does not work as expected.
DT444455 System UI In the Service Request Role-Based Application, Asset Tag barcode scanning does not work.
DT444516 System (Object) In environments using Microsoft SQL Server, going to the Vehicle Scheduling(Tr) application and clicking Schedule Dispatch causes error "BMXAA6713E - The MBO fetch operation failed in the mboset with the SQL error code 8114. The record could not be retrieved from the database. See the log file for more details about the error.".
DT445787 Assets Modifying and saving changes to a non-Rotating Asset causes uploaded images to disappear.
IJ48670 Classifications In the Item Master application, duplicating an item with duplicate specification attributes, then saving causes error "BMXAA4211E - Database error number 2601 has occurred when operating on CLASSSPECUSEWITH : ClassStructure ID=100.".
IJ51318 Purchase orders Maximo allows the approval of a purchase order referencing a condition enabled item missing a condition code on the PO line. This only occurs when the PO is created prior to condition enabling an item.

APAR Change instructions
DT435398
1. In Manage, go to System Configuration → Platform Configuration → Database Configuration.
2. From More Actions, select Messages.
3. Click the Filter icon, and filter for BMXAA10153W
4. For the new row, enter these details:
5. Click the View Details icon
6. Edit the Value Details
7. Add new value;
Using Move to add a Rotating Asset to a Storeroom Location will result in its Inventory Cost value being lost. Return the issued item instead of moving it to preserve the Inventory Cost value of the asset. Are you sure you want to continue with Move?
8. Click OK.
DT437115
1. In Manage, go to System Configuration → Platform Configuration → Database Configuration.
2. From More Actions, select Messages.
3. Click New Row.
4. For the new row, enter these details:
Message Group : contract
Message Key: cannotDeleteSite
Display Method: MSGBOX
Message ID Prefix: BMXAA
Message ID Suffix: E
Display ID: checked
Value: Sites can be deleted only when the status of the contract \{0} is Waiting on Approval or Draft.
Button: OK checked.

4. Click OK.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 September 2025

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